But hey, at least I'm not New Era and happy to hate any positive emotional outburst in a game.
Yeah, I'm hating every emotional celebration. Get a life. Celebrate with your linemates on the ice and then share a high five on the bench when you get off the ice. That's my preference. I've lost interesting the NFL because of the ridiculous celebrations that take place after the most mundane plays. Just more BS the game doesn't need IMO.
Yeah, I'm hating every emotional celebration. Get a life. Celebrate with your linemates on the ice and then share a high five on the bench when you get off the ice. That's my preference. I've lost interesting the NFL because of the ridiculous celebrations that take place after the most mundane plays. Just more BS the game doesn't need IMO.
It's a game though. These guys are essentially kids playing a game. Something exciting happens, they have fun and celebrate.
I love it. I have no problem with it, maybe because I'm 30 going on 12, but I enjoy it. I still remember when the Stampeders used to have the choreographed end zone celebrations... the bobsled one is still one of my favs, although they had a lot to like.
Such a weird thing to have issues with people having fun. Taking joy in what they do.
Yeah, I'm hating every emotional celebration. Get a life. Celebrate with your linemates on the ice and then share a high five on the bench when you get off the ice. That's my preference. I've lost interesting the NFL because of the ridiculous celebrations that take place after the most mundane plays. Just more BS the game doesn't need IMO.
I have a life, but mine doesn't include fretting about players celebrating success in a game.
I have a life, but mine doesn't include fretting about players celebrating success in a game.
I suppose only one of us can say that.
Fretting? I stated my preference against the practice and that is fretting?
Sorry, I'm from the Pete Carroll school when it comes to over the top stuff. On the heels of the Golden Tate taunting episode he took the kid aside and told him, "We just don't do that stuff on this team." Way to go Pete. Teach these kids how to be professionals. Save the big celebrations for the big plays in the big games. That is my preference anyways. Maybe its a generational thing.
Fretting? I stated my preference against the practice and that is fretting?
Sorry, I'm from the Pete Carroll school when it comes to over the top stuff. On the heels of the Golden Tate taunting episode he took the kid aside and told him, "We just don't do that stuff on this team." Way to go Pete. Teach these kids how to be professionals. Save the big celebrations for the big plays in the big games. That is my preference anyways. Maybe its a generational thing.
Yeah, those darn showboaty hand taps. Kids these days!
“As Hullie says, act like you've been there before,” Chase explained to the Post-Dispatch. “I couldn't stand the fact that my kids were emulating that. I just think you might have done it in high school, or done it in college but this is the NHL.
“Players come over to the bench and do that high-five stuff in a 2-1 game, as if the game is over, as if they just won the Cup. That's not the way the sport is. Get back out there, line up and play the game.”
I'm trying to remember the last time a team won the cup and celebrated by skating to the bench for a high five line. I understand Kelly Chase has never won a cup, but neither have I but I know that celebration is way more jumping, stick and glove throwing and a dog pile of hockey players celebrating the hell out of winning.
As for high fives on the bench, I don't mind it and I wouldn't miss it. But I find it shocking that it was something that even came up for discussion and was eventually forbidden for an NHL team.
I'm glad to see this. It's driven me nuts for some reason for years. To me, heading to the bench to high five everyone screams minor hockey. Score a goal, celebrate with your team on the ice and head back to centre to try again.
Does anyone here really believe NHL players are more emotional today than they were 15 years ago? While the fist-bump thing may have been spontaneous when it first came into the league, today it's an obligatory ritual. Nobody's fun is going to be squashed if they stop the fist-bump. Heck, maybe the players will come up with original and genuine celebrations instead.
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I could be wrong, and maybe one of the posters who plays goal could verify this for me, but I think they scuff up the crease for 2 reasons:
1) Gives them a little more friction/edging for their skates during lateral movements.
2) Creates a bit of snow to slow down any pucks that are dribbling over the line.
I equate it to a pitcher or batter digging in to get their footing.
You are pretty much dead on here.
Just to add to the first one, it also makes the ice less slippery so you can get up quicker. Fresh ice and goal pads aren't great friends and you can find yourself slipping and sliding and potentially causing injury for extending yourself faster/awkwardly then you planned. If you scuff up the ice, you tend to slide around alot less.
And some nights, those snow piles on your goal posts are more handy then your defence at stopping the behind the net plays.
Does anyone here really NHL players are more emotional today than they were 15 years ago? While the fist-bump thing may have been spontaneous when it first came into the league, today it's an obligatory ritual. Nobody's fun is going to be squashed if they stop the fist-bump. Heck, maybe the players will come up with original and genuine celebrations instead.
Exactly.
I thought it sort of silly when started in the WJHC (and then they had issues and put a linesman at center ice between the benches), but chalk that up to 18 year olds, and, a international tournament environment. It also, like college, started the jumping into the glass thing.
Now, each of these have a lot more effect and meaning in big games and big situation (see below), not going through the lineup for scoring the 2nd goal in a meaningless 5-2 loss in late October.
Same with saluting the fans...you know what, if its a great emotional charged game with the fans really into it, salute the home fans after a win, or even a loss. But don't fill the circle after every ho hum win and salute the fans, it loses its meaning.
Back to goal celebrations, there's a time a place for a jump, and Simon with the first SC Final goal in the Saddledome since Joe Mullen over 15 years earlier is a prime example...when the fans in the background are jumping higher than you are (see the dude in the Jets jersey, wearing white of course, thanks to grainy 2004 footage blurring out the red jerseys also jumping...also, the great sequence goes to a hit by Yelle and Bill Goldberg to combat Hulk and Brooke Hogan), you're more then entitled to take a jump out of pure excitement, not out of expectance.
Just to add to the first one, it also makes the ice less slippery so you can get up quicker. Fresh ice and goal pads aren't great friends and you can find yourself slipping and sliding and potentially causing injury for extending yourself faster/awkwardly then you planned. If you scuff up the ice, you tend to slide around alot less.
And some nights, those snow piles on your goal posts are more handy then your defence at stopping the behind the net plays.
Yeah. Really it is much more about the difference between managing your movement on ice in mid game condition as compared to a clean sheet, than it is about the snow piles. The snow piles used to be a bit more significant prior to the shovel crews cleaning them. Much more slippery after a flood, and it is reasonable for a goalie to have an idea of how they respond to the surface they are working on.
You see guys filing their sticks, working on them with torches, putting glue on their tape, etc. It is surprising to me that a guy takes exception to a goalie scuffing his crease to make ice a bit more consistent and predictable. Not to mention the fact that it gets scuffed quickly when play starts.
Seriously??? I thought the reason why they banning high-fiving was to avoid the injury but I guess Blues just don't want their players to have FUN anymore. hmmmm...
I don't know why so many people have problems with celebrations. Allow players to celebrate however they want, as long as it not taunting the opponents. NFL has limited celebrations and now hockey team has a problem with team celebrating a goal
hmmmm...
